Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR Disagrees with Bohn Column Lauding VSIA Chief Streibert I was somewhat surprised at William E. Bohn's kind words for USIA chief Theodore Streibert ["The New 'Voice' Clears Its...
...Already, cancer patients arc being cured—completely cured—who, even five years ago, would have been beyond all help...
...Niebuhr seems intent on justifying the Truman-Acheson policy toward China—a justification that even Mr...
...As for your implied barb at Ray Jenkins, it may well be a bouquet...
...Won't you please give really generously, this year...
...Moline, 111...
...Are we to look to our soldiers for moral leadership and to our ministers for strategic analysis...
...What is wrong with its ideas...
...It is possible that artificiality, disillusionment and powers of specious reasoning, qualities you would not assign to Mr...
...It indicates, too, a misunderstanding of the Communist terror in Indo-China, which is Ho Chi Minh's strongest weapon...
...that the long winter of despair is no longer quite so cold nor quite so dark...
...According to the record, however, Mr...
...The missionaries of Dr...
...Tens of thousands arc living happily this Springtime—and will live through many Springtimes yet to come—because they were saved last year from cancer...
...Other tens of thousands could have been saved by today's knowledge, if only they had been treated in time...
...Ironically, too, I was convinced that Mr...
...Will there ever be peace in the world until all the people, or at least most of them, have enough to eat...
...After building up Indo-China's importance out of all relation to reality, he overlooks our moral obligation to the people of China, our allies in World War II...
...The New Leader welcomes readers' comment, regardless of point of view...
...Wilbur E. Harriman Reader Is Disturbed by 'Monmouth Facts' Editorial I was disturbed by the inelastic application of the alleged basic principle of democratic jurisprudence in your editorial, "Monmouth Facts" [The New Leader, May 17...
...It seems to me that some international system is needed under which each nation can produce what it is best suited for and freely exchange these products with other nations for goods it requires but cannot produce...
...What can you or anyone else suggest so that we can look to the future with faith and hope...
...Much more...
...Jenkins (you term him a "non-sophisticate"), are the ones that help some people betray their country—and prevent many others from acknowledging this danger...
...Pelham Manor, N. Y. Edward R. Easton Says Niebuhr Overlooks 'Our Moral Obligation' to China In his article, "America and the Asians," [The New Leader, May 31], Reinhold Niebuhr seems not to understand that Indo-China is less important in the struggle for the world than any one of several provinces of China...
...Bohn calls him not only "able" and "energetic," but "very clever...
...We haven't worked hard enough at cancer education and service to patients...
...No doubt Communism is the world's greatest menace today, but do you think there would be peace if all the Communists went back to Russia and stayed there...
...If we were, what have you to offer in its place...
...Even today, in the battle against one of our strongest and cruelest enemies?cancer—there are splendid indications that out" hope and faith are not misguided...
...Why weren't they treated in time...
...Could you really believe that it is better for 100 Soviet agents to operate than to damage the reputation of one person without cause...
...And we still haven't given enough money for training physicians, for clinics, and for research...
...Is it better for a hundred thieves to go free than for one innocent man to be condemned...
...and it has never altogether failed him...
...I suggest that these agents might render all our reputations valueless...
...Robert S. Wolf Why the Sword of Hope is Mightier than Ever . In his ageless struggle on a cold and hostile planet, man's most faithful weapon—sometimes his only one—has been Hope...
...Streibert has committed the USIA to the doctrine that the free world is fighting Russian imperialism and not Communism...
...Portland, Me...
...yet, he seems to see no moral issues in East Asia...
...New York City Alfred Kohlberg Reader Searches for Plan To Secure World's Future This is prompted by Everett M. Crosby's letter in the May 24 New Leader, and I want to make it clear that it is written out of a desire for information rather than in the spirit of criticism...
...Acheson did not attempt when he submitted the White Paper to President Truman with the comment that "nothing that this country did nothing that was left undone by this country has contributed to" the fall of China to Communism...
...Because of all of us...
...Can capitalism and private enterprise accomplish this...
...He says: "Communist tyranny cannot be clearly discerned by peoples which have never known our freedom"—a direct misstatement of history not only in China, but also in Indo-China...
...For space reasons, however, we prefer letters under 300 words...
...If it isn't being wielded as powerfully as it might be, it's simply because more help is needed from everyone...
...Streibert is wrong by articles I read in The New Leader...
...Why doesn't your magazine preach socialism...
...DEAR EDITOR Disagrees with Bohn Column Lauding VSIA Chief Streibert I was somewhat surprised at William E. Bohn's kind words for USIA chief Theodore Streibert ["The New 'Voice' Clears Its Throat," The New Leader, April 26...
...Niebuhr's faith have suffered from Chinese Communism almost as much as the Chinese people themselves...
...Yes, The Sword of Hope—symbol of the American Cancer Society's struggle against a mighty implacable enemy—is stronger and sharper than ever...
...Were those of us who believed in it wrong...
Vol. 37 • June 1954 • No. 24
